Sprint Nextel is increasing their text messaging rate by five cents as of Oct. 1, from 15 cents per message to 20 cents per message. Can someone please explain why it costs 20 cents to send 150 bytes of data? Is that not the biggest rip off in the history of anything technology? By the way, don't try to cancel your service now, this is one of those 'we can increase when we want' fees.

Sprint Gouges Txt Consumer

Sprint Nextel increased its casual text messaging fee from 10 cents to 15 cents just 10 months ago. At the time, the carrier said the move would allow affected customers to get out of their service contracts wihout paying an ETF, as the changes affected service costs. Not so this time, Sprint's current terms of service do allow for changes to text messaging fees.

Overage SMS charges for customers who have a texting package will also increase, from 10 cents to 20 cents per message.

Sprint Nextel was the first carrier last year to raise its casual text messaging fees from the longtime industry standard of 10 cents per message to 15 cents per message. Shortly after the move, the rest of the nation’s major carriers also raised their casual text messaging fees from 10 cents to 15 cents.

So if you want to save you still have to buy the 'package' text messaging deals.

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